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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Living
- 1. Do the Japanese Live Better Than Americans?
- 2. Why Avoid the Altar?
- 3. Why Go to School after School?
- 4. Why So Many Gifts?
- 5. Why Is Pachinko So Popular?
- 6. Why Are the Japanese Obsessed with Luxury Brand-Name Goods?
- 7. Why Are There So Many Small Shops in Japan?
- 8. How Do the Japanese and Americans Spend Their Money?
- 9. How Can the Japanese Manage without Personal Checking Accounts?
- 10. What Are Most Japanese Doing on Tax Day?
- Work
- 11. Why Do Students Take It Easy at the University?
- 12. Why Do Japanese Companies Hire Only Spring Graduates?
- 13. Why Don’t Workers Claim All Their Overtime?
- 14. How Do Workers Get Paid?
- 15. Do the Japanese Work till They Drop?
- 16. Why Do the Japanese Save So Much?
- System
- 17. Why Is Japan a Paradise of Vending Machines?
- 18. Why Do Doctors Prescribe So Many Pills?
- 19. Why Do Bank Automatic Teller Machines Shut Down at 7 P.M.?
- 20. Why Is Rice So Expensive in Japan?
- 21. How Can the Japanese Spend So Little on Health Care?
- 22. How Does Japan’s Largest Bank Work?
- 23. Why Do So Many Japanese Contribute to Public TV?
- 24. Why Are So Few People on Welfare in Japan?
- 25. What Are Keiretsu and Why Do Some U.S. Companies Dislike Them?
- 26. Is Japan an Egalitarian Society?
- Glossary of Japanese Terms
- Sources for Statistical Data on Japan
- About the Contributors
- Index